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sure STATES PATENT Brice.

THOMAS D. LORING AND ALBION P. GILES, OF BOOTH BAY, ME ASSIGNORS TO THEKNIOKERBOOKER ICE COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.

lCE-PLANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,400, dated October27, 1885.

Application filed March 24, 1884. Serial No. 125,279.

To aZZ- whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, THOMAS D. LORING and ALBION P. GrLEs, both citizensof the United States, and residents of Booth Bay, in the county ofLincoln, State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement inIce- Planers, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is atop orplan View ofan ice-planer embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical section thereof in line a; m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

Our invention consists of an ice-planer having planing blades or knivesforming a cutter which is flaring in front, or where the ice is firstreceived, whereby the blades rest on the ice on opposite sides thereof,and are consequently held firmly to the work.

It also consists of an ice-planer having the frame which carries itsplaning blades or knives made vertically adjustable and pro- 3 videdwith guides, whereby ice of different sizes and shapes may pass undersaid frame without injury thereto.

It also consists of means for adapting the blades or knives to theremoval of definite quantities of snow or top ice.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an inclined plane or frame, andB the conveyer for ice employed therewith, as well known. O represents aframe fitted to guides O, which rise from the frame A, the under side ofsaid frame carrying the planing blades or cutters D, which extendparallel with the inclined portion of the plane or frame A. Connectedwith the frame are cords a, which are passed around pulleys b, mountedonthe guides O, the ends of the cords having weights c,whereby when theframe is raised it is assisted in its motions by said weights, the framereturning to its normal position by gravity, and serving to hold theblades or cutters in contact with the ice passed upwardly on the planeor frame A beneath the frame 0. At the lower end or front of the frame 0is a guide, E,which is pivoted or hinged to said frame, and to saidguide is pivoted or hinged an apron, F,which advancing block.

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is V-shaped and located between the guideE and blades or cutters D, itbeing noticed that said blades or cutters are likewise V-shaped, and sodisposed that they flare at their forward ends, whereby the ice ispresented first to said ends, and lastly to the point or angle of theblades or cutters. The guide E is vertically adjustable by means ofscrews G and nuts H, and the apron F is vertically adj ustable by meansof screws J and nuts K, it being seen that the guide and apron may bemoved vertically on their adjacent ends, so as to set the angle or upperend of the apron higher or lower relatively to the blades and cutters,whereby the latter are rendered adjustable for planing to greater orless extent the snow or top ice from the block of ice. It will be seenthat as the block of ice ascends the inclined plane it strikes the guideE, thus raising the frame 0, whereby the weight of the latter issuperimposed on the block, and as the block advances it moves under theapron F, and is forced against the blades or cutters D, so that snow,top ice, dirt, &c., are removed from the block, and the latter isthereby nicely planed, the snow, &C., dropping through the frames 0 A.The block continues its motion and passes the frame C,which latter thenfalls to its normal position, ready to be raised by the next Owing tothe guide E occu- 8o pying an inclined position, it is adapted to admitunder it blocks of ice of different sizes and shapes, whereby the frameO is readily raised by such blocks without injury. In order to preventrapid descent of the frame 0 after 8 5 the block has passed the bladesor cutters D, said frame 0 has secured to its upper end an inclinedguard, K, which projects upwardly and bears against the passing block,thus causing an easy descent of the frame 0. The blades or cuttersDareflaring toward the front of the frame 0, as has been stated,whereby thefront ends of both blades are simultaneously presented to and rested onthe block of ice, so that the planing is uniform, and the blade or 5cutter of either side is prevented from being strained upwardly, as bothblades are uniformly and firmly held down to their work on the block ofice.

We do not lay claim, broadly, to an ice-cut- 10o ter having a rising andfalling frame, to which a planing blade or cutter is attached, nor to anangular cutter flaring in front.

Having thus described our invention, What we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. An ice-planer having arising and falling frame carrying planingblades or cutters, and a guide at the front of said frame, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth. 7

2. An ice-planer having a rising and falling frame carrying planingblades or cutters, and a guard at the rear of said frame, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

3. An ice-planer having a rising and falling frame carrying planingblades or cutters, and a guide and a guard at the front and rear of saidframe, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

4. An: ice-planer provided with a verticallyadjustable apronin front ofthe planing blade or cutter, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

5. An ice-planer provided with a rising and falling frame carrying aplaning blade or cutter, and a vertically-adjustable guide at the frontof said frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. An ice-planer having a planing blade or cutter and averticallyadjustable guide and apron in front of said blade or cutter,the guide and cutter being pivoted or hinged together, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

7. In an ice-planing machine, the guide E,

hinged or pivoted to the frame 0, in combina- E. T. J. WHITON, D. W.HUNT.

